Comments on: Do You Need A Physical Keyboard On Your Phone?

By: Rob Mulally

Rob Mulally — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:37:26 +0000

I personally just decided to go with N86 8MP, based on it not having a Qwerty Keyboard and Not having a Touch Screen ? Why?

Because I can touch type, I either will use a bluetooth keyboard or I’ll be able to continue to type while holding my phone 1 handed and not looking.

Being forced to “look” at a keyboard is something That I wish to avoid when typing and being forced to use a tiny qwerty keyboard (Phyiscal or via touch screen) is painfull for me.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:54:36 +0000

I barely ever use the iphone keyboard but when i do i shock myself at how fast i can type. Even faster that typing on a computer! I was at the shops the other day and was messing about with a blackberry bold keyboard and was surprised to find that it was almost impossible to use without hitting three keys at a time! Blackberry uses may bleat that you just have to get used to the keyboard and that using an iphone keyboard made it harder; but there was no learning curve with the iphone and i had never used a touchscreen phone in my life before i got and iphone. I simply don’t understand the love affair with tactile keyboards; unless there landscape slide outs then the buttons are simply too small.

By: Louis

Louis — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:49:45 +0000

Keyboard all the way, i also have a HTC dream which has both a phyical and a software keyboard, i very rarly use the software keyboard and think it would drive me crazy if that was the only option i had.

By: Michael Kerr

Michael Kerr — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:23:31 +0000

before my iphad, i used WM based phones for 7+ years. the soft-keyboards were so useless and clunky i hated the experience, and only ever used phones with keyboards.

the softpad on the iphad is fast enough to not feel clunky, the touch is fantastic (being capactive or whatever it’s called. the pressure based WM screens would too often skip keypresses). and it’s better integrated to the software (something easier to do on the relatively new iphad OS).

now i prefer the softpad, and type considerably faster than i ever did with my jasjam, k-jam, or kaiser.

By: adante

adante — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:58:56 +0000

I was ambivalent about the hardware keyboard on my G1 – personally I find it much nicer to type on that a software keyboard, but wasn’t sure if it was really worth the extra bulk.

At least until I saw mame for android ( http://g-arcade.appspot.com/ ). Nuff said, no regrets.

By: gruuber

gruuber — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:19:43 +0000

Why not a phone with both? a palm pre-like device with a software keyboard seems to be the only solution to satisfy all parties with one phone.

By: Raphael

Raphael — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:52:55 +0000

Oh No! Th “” ky stoppd working on my hardwar kyboard and thr’s nothing I can do about it!

The iPhone software keyboard is fantastic. You people are all insane.

By: adrian

adrian — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:11:12 +0000

Give me a hardware keyboard anyday. Faster, more accurate. i have had plenty of practice at both and its hardware keyboard all the way for me…

By: Gareth Redshaw

Gareth Redshaw — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:41:23 +0000

physical keyboard is a must
i got rid of my iphone because the sms and email composing was irking me that much

now i use a full qwerty htc dream and would never considering not having a keyboard ever again…

By: Willem Tay

Willem Tay — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:06:53 +0000

Let’s get physical with a keyboard.

If they can fit it all in then im happy to sacrifice a bit of space. Got my Nokia E71 simply for size and keyboard.

The palm pre is looking real good right now